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A Rhetoric for High Schools and Colleges Arnold Tompkins. Walter Mom's Hart Ankely , 1900 THE SCIENCE OF DISCOURSE A RHETORIC FOR HIGH SCHOOLS AND.
A Rhetoric for High Schools and Colleges Arnold Tompkins. Walter Mom's Hart Ankely , 1900 THE SCIENCE OF DISCOURSE A RHETORIC FOR HIGH SCHOOLS AND.
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A Rhetoric for High Schools and Colleges Arnold Tompkins. THE SCIENCE OF DISCOURSE A RHETORIC FOR HIGH SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES BY ARNOLD TOMPKINS PROFESSOR OF PEDAGOGY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS , AUTHOR OF " PHILOSOPHY OF TEACHING ...
A Rhetoric for High Schools and Colleges Arnold Tompkins. THE SCIENCE OF DISCOURSE A RHETORIC FOR HIGH SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES BY ARNOLD TOMPKINS PROFESSOR OF PEDAGOGY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS , AUTHOR OF " PHILOSOPHY OF TEACHING ...
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... DISCOURSE EFFICIENT MEANS TO A WORTHY END CONDITIONS OF EFFECTIVENESS The Author or the Interpreter Himself A Sincere Purpose A Definite Purpose PAGE iii I I 8 13 13 19 19 24 31 THE THOUGHT IN DISCOURSE THE THEME 4I 4I THE DISCOURSE ...
... DISCOURSE EFFICIENT MEANS TO A WORTHY END CONDITIONS OF EFFECTIVENESS The Author or the Interpreter Himself A Sincere Purpose A Definite Purpose PAGE iii I I 8 13 13 19 19 24 31 THE THOUGHT IN DISCOURSE THE THEME 4I 4I THE DISCOURSE ...
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... discourse studies com- position , reading , rhetoric , and literature . But with- out naming all , we have several more studies than units ; and , what is worse , grammar and discourse studies deal with words and sentences . Any unit is ...
... discourse studies com- position , reading , rhetoric , and literature . But with- out naming all , we have several more studies than units ; and , what is worse , grammar and discourse studies deal with words and sentences . Any unit is ...
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Page 220 - FEAR death? — to feel the fog in my throat, The mist in my face, When the snows begin, and the blasts denote I am nearing the place, The power of the night, the press of the storm, The post of the foe ; Where he stands, the Arch Fear in a visible form, Yet the strong man must go...
Page 219 - So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, which moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
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Page 204 - Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore, — "Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou/' I said, "art sure no craven, Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore: Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore !
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Page 338 - THE day is cold, and dark, and dreary ; It rains, and the wind is never weary ; The vine still clings to the mouldering wall, But at every gust the dead leaves fall, And the day is dark and dreary.
Page 332 - I hear the tread of pioneers Of nations yet to be ; The first low wash of waves, where soon Shall roll a human sea.
Page 261 - As long as you have the wisdom to keep the sovereign authority of this country as the sanctuary of liberty, the sacred temple consecrated to our common faith, wherever the chosen race and sons of England worship freedom, they will turn their faces towards you.
Page 64 - And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays; Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life murmur, or see it glisten; Every clod feels a stir of might, •An instinct within it that reaches and towers, And, groping blindly above it for light, Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers...
Page 221 - Ye who believe in affection that hopes, and endures, and is patient, Ye who believe in the beauty and strength of woman's devotion, List to the mournful tradition, still sung by the pines of the forest; List to a Tale of Love in Acadie, home of the happy.